Net Hopping
January 27, 2007
I am going to try to do something occasionally here at Mr Papa’s World. I will call it Net Hopping. I read a lot of interesting articles/post from around the internet thanks to the wonders of RSS feed readers. I am going to start posting an occasional blog with links to some of the more interesting ones in order to share them with my readers.
Anyways, here is my first version of net hopping…
- Top ten worst domain names
- Twenty additional unfortunate domain names
- Want to lose weight? Eat like an ape
- Insane Travel Day
- New Blogging Software Habari to challenge WordPress
- WordPress 2.1 Released
- 30 Days of WordPress Plugins
- 25 tips to optimize your blog
- Immortal Computing
- Doing anything for Super Bowl tickets
- Virgin Galactic exploring space flights from Sweden
- Xbox 360 Gears of War nominated for 10 awards
Enjoy the reading and I will try to do this periodically.
A Little Military Trivia
January 10, 2007
I received the following military trivia from a friend that is former military in an email the other day. I found it to be interesting and thought I would share it. I haven’t actually confirmed the information below, so treat it accordingly. Supposedly, this information has been attributed to military history buff Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Retired.
- The first German serviceman killed in WW-2 was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps… So much for allies…
- The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.)
- At the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”), the shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named “Amerika.” All three were soon changed for PR purposes.
- More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions your chance of being killed was 71%.
- Generally speaking there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.
- It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.
- When allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).
- German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City, but it wasn’t worth the effort.
- German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
- Among the first “Germans” captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.
- Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. Twenty-one troops were killed in the firefight. It would have been worse if there had been any Japanese on the island.
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